{"id":28919,"date":"2012-02-29T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28919"},"modified":"2012-02-29T08:43:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:36","slug":"ssg-eddie-peoples-foils-bank-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28919","title":{"rendered":"SSG Eddie Peoples foils bank robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Eddie-Peoples.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28920\" title=\"Eddie Peoples\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Eddie-Peoples.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Eddie-Peoples.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Eddie-Peoples-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SSG Eddie Peoples was home on leave in Florida, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/nco-earns-soldier-s-medal-for-valor-during-bank-robbery-1.170130\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, after five tours of Iraq and Kuwait and found himself and his children at the business end of a bank robber&#8217;s handgun at the Bank of America. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23689\">We discussed SSG Peoples&#8217;<\/a> heroism last June.<\/p>\n<p>I bring it up again because he was awarded a Soldier&#8217;s Medal for his actions that day. And I just had to publish this quote from Peoples;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peoples said that even though he was off duty and not wearing his uniform, he felt an obligation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never someone else\u2019s problem when you\u2019re in the U.S. Army,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are the sworn defenders of the United States people and I take my oath very seriously.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s that quote about &#8220;rough men&#8221;? Thanks for bringing honor to the profession, SSG Peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSG Eddie Peoples was home on leave in Florida, according to Stars &#038; Stripes, after five &hellip; <a title=\"SSG Eddie Peoples foils bank robbers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28919\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSG Eddie Peoples foils bank robbers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}